WWE has announced the full match card for WrestleMania 33, as well as revealed what matches will be on the pre-show, when the shows will start, how to watch the show and more. If you’re a fan of the Cruiserweights, get ready to get a little sad.
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The WrestleMania 33 pre-show will begin at 5 p.m. EST, and can be watched on the WWE Network, WWE.com, Facebook, Twitter, the WWE app and more. You don’t need to have a subscription to the WWE Network to watch the pre-show. The second hour of the pre-show will also be aired on USA Network.
As for the matches, the Cruiserweight Championship match between Neville and Austin Aries, the SmackDown Women’s Championship match and the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal will all take place on the pre-show. It’s disappointing to see any championship match fall to the pre-show, but it feels even worse when it’s the Cruiserweights and the SmackDown women. These are two divisions that are really great for WWE and could use more exposure than the pre-show.
Confirmed wrestlers for the Andre the Giant Memorial Battle Royal include Mojo Rawley, Big Show, Sami Zayn, Braun Strowman and Apollo Crews. There will be 25 other entrants, so expect to see people like Curt Hawkins, Bo Dallas, Heath Slater and more to pop up for this one. There will likely be some one-off nostalgia returns as well, like Tatanka last year.
The main show will start at 7 p.m. EST, exclusively on the WWE Network. The matches on the main show include the RAW Women’s Fatal 4-Way, the RAW Tag Team ladder match, Orton versus Wyatt, Reigns versus Undertaker, Cena and Nikki versus Miz and Maryse, Rollins versus Triple H, McMahon versus Styles, Jericho versus Owens, Ambrose versus Corbin and Lesnar versus Goldberg. There will also be a performance from Pitbull and Flo Rida.
Absent from the card this year are The Usos, SmackDown’s tag team champs. The team just won the belts on last week’s SmackDown Live, so there wasn’t much time to build up a feud for the Usos to have for WrestleMania. It’s a little disappointing to see, but the card is already so crowded, there isn’t any space for more matches as it is.
So what do you think? Are you sad to see the SmackDown women and Cruiserweights on the WrestleMania 33 pre-show? What matches are you most looking forward to? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section below.
